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ISBN: PB: 9783035800852

University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes

August 2018

288 pp.

19.5x12.7 cm

60 halftones

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£30,00
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Scripted Culture

Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges. In some ways, the digital age seems to have brought the goals of the Enlightenment to their fullest fruition, giving us boundless and instantaneous access to every kind of knowledge and art. But the internet and its platforms also frequently bring chaos, immersing us in a sphere of often unverified information whose scope is unimaginable. This book takes a tour through the current debates on digital culture, bringing together a wide array of perspectives from aesthetic theory, cultural studies, electronic media, and the arts.

About the Author

Ines Kleesattel is lecturer in art history and cultural theory at the Zurich University of the Arts and coeditor of The Future is Unwritten, also published by Diaphanes.

Ruedi Widmer is program manager of journalism at the Zurich University of the Arts and editor, most recently, of "Holy Shit", also published by Diaphanes.